Rutherford County Schools face $16.4M budget deficit

10:25 PM,
May 12, 2014

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County property owners could be looking at a 12.6 percent property tax increase to cover school operations next year unless reserves can reduce the burden, officials reported.

"All funds are OK except for schools," County Finance Director Lisa Nolen said during an interview in her second-floor office at the County Courthouse on the Public Square in Murfreesboro.

She noted how the Rutherford County Board of Education had to use $10.4 million in reserves to operate this year's $302 million budget for a fast-growing district. By depleting what had been in savings, the County Commission was ...